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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

H. M. HOVER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

STAIR-ROD.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 49,270, dated August 8, 1865.

To all whom 'it may concern;

Beit known that I, H.M. HOVER, in the city, count-y, and State of New York,have invented a new and useful Improvement in Stair-Rods; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a front view of a stair-rod made according to my invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse section thereof ou the line ot' Fig. 1.

Similar lettersv of reference indicate like parts.

This invention consists in making stair-rods for holding down carpets partly of india-rubber or gutta-percha, as hereinafter explained.

A is a front view of a portion of a stair-rod of a shape now commonly used, and which is usually retained in position against a carpet by means of buttons secured to and projecting from the risers of the stair-case. The rod is shown in cross-section in Fig. 2.

C is a metallic re-enforce, by which the rod is stiiened and strengthened, and which I employ' in this modification ot my invention.

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B is a covering or coating of hard rubber, which is laid over the front of the rod, and over both its edges, as shown in Fig. 2. The rubber is applied while it is plastic and afterward made into hard rubber, according to the process ot' the art of manufacturing rubber. Gut' The rubber stairrod, constructed substany tially as herein described, as a new article ot' manufacture.

H. M. HOVER.

Witnesses M. M. LlViNGs'roiv, C. L. ToPLIFF. 

